You really need to stop listening to Alex Jones, here is a pro tip: He is deluding you so he can fleece your dumb gullible ass.

Pffft.... you forgot that the Trumps are above the law, just like it was criminal for Hillary to use a private email server but its A-OK for the Trumps to do so while conducting government business. Silly person, Trumps are gods that are above the laws of you mere mortals!

Shocking that 2 man company that won a $300 no-bid contract to restore the power to Peurto Rico didn't get there first. Especially when those 2 men had connections to a Trump donor. Strange that. It's almost as if Trump is incredibly corrupt and giving massive amounts of money to his friends and supporters for doing nothing.

No, it's largely Chinese demand as a way to hide assets from the Communist government. China is heading for a Japan-style economic crash(their economy, much like Japan in the 80s, is built on piles of bad debt) and the rich know that when the shit finally hits the fan the CCP is going to get grabby, real grabby. Using bitcoin is a way to shield money from the CCP(foreign assets such as property is another way, which is why there is a huge boom of Chinese buying up property all over the world, away from the grabby hand of Uncle Xi)

Nice try but I'm still choosing Leader over Mohammed, at least Leader has an amazing spaceship he won't show us.

Trump talked big game about China during the election, but has done absolutely nothing about China in the 8 months he has been president. Well, I guess thats not totally true he withdrew from the TPP which was formed mostly as a bulwark against China. Not really sure what he is doing, could be that Jared is making too much money off of China, could be that Trump needs Chinese money to fund more irresponsible tax cuts, could be because he is profoundly lazy, probably a combination of those factors.

Depends on the country really. In Germany most larger stores will happily handle 500 euro notes, and most ATMs will dispense them. However in a lot of other Euro zone countries they freak out if you hand them anything larger than a 50

A system can be "better than a human" a large percent of the time and still cause crashes. Look to aviation for the answer, crashes have become almost a thing of the past in most developed countries with high standards of maintenance because we have figured out how best to get the humans and the machines to work together. The automation takes over most of the grunt work and when it runs into problems it essentially makes the humans the "backup system".

Problem with cars is nobody wants to spend a lot of money on a fancy automation system only to be told they still have to pay attention to the road.

Not to mention that with first and last name and last 6 finding the first 3 is often quite simple(especially if they can get your IP address as well). There are a ton of background sites where for free you can, with reasonable accuracy, piece together where a person was born and thus can figure out the first 3. SSNs are terrible for so many reasons, one of the biggest is that they aren't random. If they were completely random strings then I could share a certain # of digits without it being relatively easy for you to figure out the rest, but that isn't true with SSNs.

Because if the CEO wants to take the lion share of the profits when things go good they better be willing to put their neck on the line when things go bad. Otherwise they are just thieves. I might be more willing to have sympathy for the CEO if they weren't making hundreds of times what the average worker wants.

TL;DR don't take the reward if you aren't willing to accept the risk.

I am hoping to keep my 2012 macbook pro going, but doubt I will get a mac when it dies. I got 16 gb of ram in 2012 and in 2017 I can max out a macbook pro with.....16gb of ram. Why would I plunk down that much cash for a machine that is barely faster than what I currently own? Apple needs to up the ram in its "professional" laptops to something I couldn't get 5 years ago if they expect me to put money into buying a new one.

Actually the population of Tokyo(as well as surrounding prefectures such as Kanagawa and Chiba) is actually increasing, but that won't last forever, the countryside is running out of young people to send to Tokyo. Now why the Japanese government doesn't give 2 fucks about how bad the economy is outside of Tokyo is beyond me

Except its not that simple, fat is not an inert tissue(which is why people who lose weight can never return to their old eating habits, even if they were at equilibrium before trying to lose weight). So every pound of fat will consume a certain # of calories every day for upkeep(the younger and well maler you are the more that number goes up). So while you will consume 17500 or so more calories, you won't actually gain 5 lbs of weight, you will gain something less, but thats much harder to accurately quantify.

Never realized there were so many Vonnegut fans in Japan

Straight from the liberal rag known as Forbes

I mean, I know you are a Republican and thus dimwitted and gullible, but even a Trumpanzee can at least use a keyboard. Maybe next time think before opening your mouth(other than perhaps to stuff opioids in it)